Thomas Hart Benton Wheat
1967
oil
20 x 21 in.
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Mitchell and museum purchase
"The future was sunset; the past something to leave behind. And if it didn't stay behind, well, you might have to stomp it out. Slave life; freed life-every day was a test and a trial. Nothing could be counted on in a world where even when you were a solution you were a problem"
-Beloved
Thomas Hart Benton
Wheat
1967
oil
20 x 21 in.
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Mitchell and museum purchase
"The future was sunset; the past something to leave behind. And if it didn't stay behind, well, you might have to stomp it out. Slave life; freed life-every day was a test and a trial. Nothing could be counted on in a world where even when you were a solution you were a problem"
-Beloved
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